The Emmy nominations were released yesterday. There is a lot of good news to recognize most especially the fact that two women — Lean Dunham and Amy Poehler — were nominated for their comedy writing. According to Nellie at Deadline having two women nominated for comedy writing is a big and not very frequent deal. The last time it happened was a decade ago.

I counted only a handful times in Emmy history when two female writers have received comedy writing nominations, the last time in 2002 when Jennifer Crittenden was nominated for the Marie’s Sculpture episode of Everybody Loves Raymond and Julie Rottenberg & Elisa Zuritsky for the My Motherboard, My Self episode of Sex & The City.

And the piece also says that women writers have only won in this category three times since it was created in 1955. Those women are: “Treva Silverman in 1974 for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Diane English in 1989 for the pilot of Murphy Brown and Tina Fey in 2008 for an episode of her NBC series 30 Rock.”

So while it is great to celebrate the advent of “peak vagina” in comedy writing, it was not a great year for women directors in drama and miniseries where there were no women nominated. And Lena was the only female director nominated for comedy.

The most interesting news is Lena Dunham received multiple nominations for writing, directing and acting. Louis CK was the only other person nominated in the same fashion.